Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state or quality of being primitive.

    a wild or unrefined state

  2. (countable, uncountable)The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Degrowth is not primitivism.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: primitivisms
Singularprimitivism
Pluralprimitivisms

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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